Bark
everyone knows
heart telling tales
that get a dog's tail
wagging after being
rescued from abuse
and so the same for
cats and other animals
that grew up or were forced
to grow up on the shady side of
town not meaning out of the sun
but without love so
lizards and birds and
turtles were told that
that's life as Sinatra
croons his song on
and on but this has
become an everyday
event but what about
in dismay that christian
day of present's presence
depending on one's families
economic state where poison
is wrapped to open to release
in the land of well to do bigger
then the life's symbolic tree
yet as festive festive can
only be so long and we
don't share needles so
it's that tree that must
go even though less
then one foot tall
give it the boot but
know you're doing
the right thing be
cause you're re
cycling
so on top
once a star
now it is the
star of garbage
waiting for the truck
to be picked up but
be thrown out with
all the other stuff
but while driving
by my wife spied
a shiver of green
meaning there
must be
life
told to pull over as
she ran over and
coming back
coddling
an ever
green
shhhhh
everything
will be well
while crossing
herself she
crossed our
house's threshold
and sealed the deal
until the ringing of spring
we found ourselves
around a shovel made
hole to hold but not bury
though either way that free
dom was there for that tree
for now
it stands
taller then
you or even
oddly
me
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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